八版圣典节译：附魔战士

机仆：yysy，其实我个人挺喜欢附魔战士和受祝之子的模型。

POSSESSED

附魔战士

For some Chaos Space Marines,simply dedicating their souls to the service of the gods is not enough.Those who thirst for power at any cost will offer themselves wholly to Chaos,becoming willing hosts to the immaterial creatures of the warp.

对某些混沌星际战士而言，献出自己的灵魂服务于诸神是不够的。那些渴求力量，愿意为此付出任何代价的人会将自己完全交给混沌，成为亚空间非物质生物的自愿宿主。

Such possession is a lengthy and agonising experience, as the Daemons within them infest their physical forms,moulding them to better suit their peculiar needs.

这种附魔过程是一种漫长且痛苦的经历，因为他们体内的恶魔会侵蚀他们的物理形体，以此塑造他们，让他们更为适合他们怪异的需求。

Those who offer themselves up for possession spend months in rituals of debasement and scarification, preparing their bodies to harbour a daemonic entity. Though the personalities of  these half- mad supplicants are subsumed forever, mass possessions are nonetheless great celebrations of the union between the mortal and the daemonic.For the mortal host,a shortcut to exceptional power has been achieved. For the Daemon, the flesh and bone of the host acts as an anchor to the material realm that allows them to exist outside of warp-saturated environments;instead of fading away over time,as with their kin,they remain whole almost indefinitely.

那些献身附魔的人会在堕落和献祭的仪式中花费数月的时间，他们准备好自己的躯体来容纳恶魔实体。虽然这些半疯狂的祈求者的人格会被永远纳入，但大规模的附魔仪式仍然是对于凡人与恶魔结成同盟的伟大庆贺。对于凡人宿主而言，他们得到了获取强大力量的捷径；对恶魔而言，宿主的血肉筋骨也提供了允许它们脱离亚空间浸透的环境、存在于物质宇宙当中的稳定锚；他们的力量不会随时间而削弱，相反，恶魔与宿主会近乎永久地保持为一个整体。

Possessed are easily identified by their grotesque features and mutated bodies; they may have vicious claws,outlandishly warped limbs, tentacles, wings, extra mouths and eyes,or razored talons that can gouge through ceramite andsteel.In battle they sometimes appear to flicker in and out of reality or even take different forms from one moment to the next,bounding along in the manner of predatory beasts only to erupt into howling tornadoes of teeth and claws that seem more ethereal storm than mortal man.They are superb trackers,able to perceive the material realm and the empyrean at the same time–they can see fear,taste doubt and feel the greasy psychic stain of despair. Using these uncanny senses,they can even guide the fleets of the Chaos Space Marines through the shifting tides of the warp should they deign to help their mortal allies.However,their primary role–and that which they most relish–is tearing apart their prey in frantic yet inventive displays of violence.

我们能够通过附魔战士们怪异的特征与变异的躯体轻易地辨别出他们；他们可能会有凶恶的利爪，怪异扭曲的肢体，触手，翅膀，额外的嘴和眼睛，或者能够凿穿陶钢和钢铁的尖锐爪子。在战斗中，他们有时似乎会在现实内外忽隐忽现，甚至他们的形体都会在一个时刻到下一个时刻的时间中发生变化。他们以掠食野兽的方式跳跃行动，在行动中则会爆发出如同尖牙和利爪构成的龙卷风一般的狂乱，他们看起来与其说是人，倒不如说是一阵超凡的风暴。他们是卓越的追踪者，能够同时感知到物质领域和至高天领域——他们能看见恐惧、品尝疑虑和感受到绝望所构成的油腻灵能污点。倘若他们（愿意）屈尊帮助自己的凡人盟友的话，他们甚至能利用这种不可思议的感官指引混沌星际战士舰队穿越亚空间不断移动变化的浪潮。不过，他们最主要的任务——也是他们最享受的事情还是狂暴且富有创造力展示暴力，撕碎他们的猎物。

GREATER POSSESSED

高阶附魔战士

Those mortal warriors who commit the most notable acts of monstrosity attract the attention of the most malefic warp beings– those named as Heralds by the Dark Gods.Towering over their fearsome kin, Greater Possessed are not only stronger and farmore savage,but radiate an unholy charisma that even pure creatures of the warp recognise. Fellow Daemonkin look upon these deformed champions with great reverence,for they are living proof of the ultimate ascension that awaits them all.

那些犯下了最为显著的恶行的凡世战士会引起那些被黑暗诸神称为使者的最为凶恶的亚空间存在的注意。高阶附魔战士们远胜于他们那些骇人的亲属们，他们不仅更为强壮、更为野蛮得多，而且他们能显露出哪怕纯粹的亚空间生物也能辩识出的邪恶魅力。下属的魔军们会带着强烈的崇敬仰望这些畸形的冠军们，因为这些高阶附魔战士就是等待着他们所有人的最终升格的活生生证据。

With gigantic pincer-claws and scythe-like talons of twisted bone,these malformed abominations slash and tear their prey apart, delighting in the gory carnage they wreak.Every Greater Possessed is a locus of empyric power in realspace,an instrument through which the fell corruptions of the warp are given form. Both mortal and daemonic warriors are driven to an exultant frenzy when they fight alongside these horrifying champions,desperate to claim such eternal honour for themselves with a worthy display of brutality.Yet the Greater Possessed themselves have little interest in the ascension of their allies– what mind they have is fixed on carnage.

这些畸形的可憎之物们会用他们巨大的螯爪和扭曲的骨头构成的镰刀般的利爪屠杀和撕碎他们的猎物，他们会在残酷的屠杀中感到愉悦。每名高阶附魔战士都是至高天力量在现实宇宙中的一个核心点，亚空间中的堕落腐化也通过这些工具被给予了形体。当他们在这些可怖的冠军身边作战时，凡人和恶魔的战士都会被驱使进入一种狂喜的疯狂状态，他们迫切希望以残酷的表现为自己争取这份永恒的荣誉。不过高阶附魔战士们对于盟友们的升格几乎没有兴趣——他们专注于屠杀。